Tuesday, November 12, 2013

The Kid Who Cried... “Obama!”

By the time the Clintons Beverly-Hillbilly’d their way
into the Logic Free Zone, Whitewater, Web Hubble, Jennifer Flowers, Red Bone,
Barry Seal were early cannon fodder for talk show hosts like me doing AM Drive
on a DC station; it was hot stuff. Guests were high profile and deep into the
weeds of the scandals (a good thing). Despite the Herculean efforts of
reporters and editorial writers at the Washington Times (DC’s “other” newspaper),
talk show hosts such my colleagues at WWRC and authors like James Bovard (“Feeling Your Pain”) did our best
by crying “Clinton!” to warn the public danger was at the door and wanted a
seat at the dinner table. The Constitution was the entre with a side order of Rights.
But most historical accounts record (verbatim) “Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime
economic expansion in American history”, thrilling the Wall St – DC “Axis of
Crony Capitalism” and tamping down any bad news.

While talk radio’s ratings grew nicely, the big players
were still on the bench. At best, the WaPo, DC’s “Paper of Record”, was late to
every party and the networks’ newscasts stifled yawns. Even Talk Radio’s
All-Knowing “Maha Rushdie” was loath to risk a “conspiracy” label calling the
death of Vince Foster what it was (murder) preferring the more salacious
material: Jennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, Monica Lewinsky, stains,
cigars and little black dresses.

The Public, reliably uninformed by the MSM and already
suffering the advance stages of Contagious Apathy and Aggressive Ignorance
mostly stuck with the prescription drugs: Bread and Circuses. Thanks in large part to the Clinton’s
“Caligula Effect”, many of us in Talk radio began focusing on Washington’s increasing
likeness to Mos Eisley (“You will never find
a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
Obi-Wan
Kenobi, Star Wars, 1977).

Despite our best efforts, the other parts of
the “alternative media” were still struggling through technological puberty and
other growing pains. Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Smart Phones were all beyond the
horizon.

The Bush-Gore Horror Show, co-starring SCOTUS, The Wonder
Slug, finally ushered in the G.W. Bush Era and the disastrous and tragic 9/11.
Once the shock began to wear off, the MSM, Talk radio and now-budding
“alternative media” took note of the Other Tragedy: the Patriot Act and the
mortal wounds inflicted on the Bill of Rights. The ultimate “fear factor”, the
War on Terror was introduced and used to manipulate public opinion in favor of
an intrusive, oppressive government on steroids to “keep us safe”; Ben Franklin
quotes were ubiquitous. While public reaction morphed from Soporific to
Terrified, rather than fear for lost Liberties, the Sixpack family embraced the
“If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” scary tale and accepted
the specter of warrantless searches, government eavesdropping and the beginning
of airport physicals. Cries of “Bush!” lost Liberty, erosion of inalienable
rights and government’s swing into elliptical orbit beyond Constitutional
constraints, while receiving additional MSM attention, was mostly inspired by
the aversion to Bush in particular and conservatism in general. The Sixpacks
blew off the growing warning signs in favor of being “kept safe” by the ever-expanding
DC Nanny which, ironically, was manufacturing the Fear Factor.

Now the wolf was not only at the door, he was about to
come inside…

Enter Barack Hussein Obama.

The ballyhooed euphoria of the Hope ‘n Change guy
completely stifled the sirens, bells and whistles set off by the inconstancies
and outright contradictions of Obama’s resume. Not even a consortium of Super
Heroes could tear down the walls that sealed Obama’s secrets. Worse, the fully-engaged
MSM, euphoric over the vanquished Bush/McCain/conservatives, ravaged anyone who
had the temerity to raise a question about absence of the most basic
qualifications for the country’s highest office and the world’s most powerful
position. The “alternative media” was now full-grown and fully engaged.
Bloggers, “citizen journalists”, Facebook and Twitter combined in a cacophony
of columns, videos, books and web sites screaming the warning to America
something very, very wrong had happened.

But the popular narrative perpetuated by the MSM would
not be easily contradicted. Despite the most blatant lies and thoroughly
researched revelations, the propaganda branch of the administration ignored or
eviscerated anyone who would question the veracity of The One. To do so would
be “racist”, the ultimate trump card in the game of public discourse. All
attempts to cry “Obama!” were smothered in the extreme.

From shadowy family roots, a remarkably “sealed” birth
certificate, sealed passports, sealed college transcripts and ghost-written
autobiographies to the current but muted scandals of “Fast and Furious”, IRS
targeting, NSA metadata gathering, Benghazi deaths, only now is the public’s
lethargy starting to fade. Could it be a “wolf” is at the door again?

“If you like your
doctor, you can keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health plan, you can
keep it. Period.”

These two lies are this President’s petard. Even the
administration’s army of obfuscating myrmidons, public
relations press , even
Democrat politicians is speaking in unison with what the “alternative media” has been screaming for
years: the unassailable mountain of evidence testifying to this president’s
flaccid respect for Truth. Even with these lies published, broadcast and
re-broadcast daily, President Pinocchiobama cannot bring himself to admit the
lie and offer an apology that isn’t intentionally weasel-worded to absolve him
of any responsibility.

So we are left with that previously sophomoric question: “Since
he lied about this, what else has he lied about?” The list is too long to be
replicated here. One truth even this president cannot deny: Like virginity,
Integrity doesn’t grow back.